The Ereri Project!

Wanderlust

Of course Levi noticed Eren was getting antsy.

It was hard to miss the look in his eyes watching things on TV about faraway places. "Mikasa says they're going to London first. Then they're gonna make their way to Rome."

"Sounds exciting," Levi says, playing with Eren's hair absently.

"I wish I could go with them."

Levi quirks an eyebrow. "Why can't you?"

"What?"

Levi shrugs absently. "You can go if you want, it's not like you won't be back."

"But for the entire second half of the summer?"

"Eren, you're twenty years old and don't have a career yet to worry about. You should have fun and do what you want while you have the time and enough energy to enjoy it."

Eren stares at Levi. "Would you be okay with me being gone for so long?"

"Don't think about me," Levi says and shakes his head. "You act like I didn't have a life before you walked back into it."

"I'm just saying, we haven't really spent more than a few days apart in over a year."

Levi rolls his eyes. "Worry about yourself, brat."

Eren gives him a look but reaches for his cellphone. "Last chance, I'm calling Mikasa now."

"Go ahead, before I change my mind."

"Hey Mikasa," Eren says. "I'm in."

As Levi suspected, Mikasa had asked him to go with her. "Alright, I'll be over later and we can talk about that then... See you."

I hang up and Levi looks at me. "Who else did you say was going?"

"Just Armin," Eren replies. "Unless someone else wants to tag along I guess."

Levi takes a deep breath and leans over so he's lying across Eren's lap. "I backpacked in Europe once," he says. "My need to be clean eventually beat out my wanderlust but I was glad I went."

"Who'd you go with?"

"Erwin, Hanji, and Petra. I found out a week after we got overseas that Petra hadn't told mom and dad she was coming and had snuck out. I think they probably felt the same way they did when I left cause they didn't let her go back home when we came back. Did I tell you that's why she was living with me for a while?"

"No," Eren replies. "But it does seem like a pretty good reason to get kicked out."

"It was a pretty fun summer."

Eren leans over and kisses Levi. "Thank you for letting me go."

"I would never let you go, I'm letting you wander."

Eren laughs. "Thank you anyway."

Levi sits up and levels him with a stare. "But if I find out you made out with Armin or some bullshit like that I'm never letting you out of my sight again."